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Company Profile

SunPower Corporation, an integrated solar products and services company, designs, manufactures, and delivers solar electric systems for residential, commercial, and utility-scale power plant customers worldwide. It operates in two segments, Utility and Power Plants, and Residential and Commercial. The Utility and Power Plants segment engages in the development and sale of power plant projects, as well as provides turn-key engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for power plant construction; and power plant operations and maintenance (O&M) services. This segment serves investors, financial institutions, project developers, electric utilities, and independent power producers. It also sells solar panels and mounting systems to third parties. The Residential and Commercial Segment focuses on solar equipment sales to the residential and small commercial market through its direct sales force and third-party dealer network, as well as provides EPC and O&M services for rooftop and ground-mounted solar power systems for the new homes, commercial, and public sectors. This segment primarily sells its products to commercial and governmental entities, and production home builders, as well as to residential owners and small commercial building owners. The company’s products include solar cells and panels; inverters; rooftop solar products; ground-mounted solar power systems, such as fixed tilt and tracker systems for parking structures, as well as modular solar power blocks; and mounting structures, charge controllers, grid interconnection equipment, and other devices. SunPower Corporation also offers end-to-end management services for project lifecycle comprising site assessment, financing support, and project development, including full-scale environmental and construction permitting, EPC, and commissioning. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. SunPower Corporation is a subsidiary of Total Gas & Power USA, SAS.